Note I wrote this paper at the request of an anarchist colleague, despite the fact that I do not care much for “anarchist politics.” Despite my better judgment, I had sent it to Anarchist Studies for publication, as an attempt to showcase a practical ‘post-anarchism’ in psychoanalytic working groups within the School of Lacan. It...
In a recent series of exchanges between Slavoj Žižek and Simon Critchley, the spectre of anarchism has once again emerged. In querying Critchley’s proposal in his recent book Infinitely Demanding (2007) for a radical politics that works outside the state – that take its distance from it – Žižek (2007a) says: The ambiguity of Critchley’s...